Project Fortress
Project Fortress is described like this in its Wikipedia entry.
Project Fortress (formerly Cleve Hill Solar Farm) is a photovoltaic power station under construction on the Graveney marshes between Faversham and Whitstable, Kent in the UK.
Once operational, it will be the largest solar farm in the UK, generating 373 MW of electricity from 900 acres (360 ha) of vertical solar panels and will also include 700 MWh of battery storage. Because of its size, it is a nationally significant infrastructure project so outside the standard local planning procedure.
Electricity will be exported from the project via the 400 kV National Grid substation at Cleve Hill, constructed to serve the London Array offshore wind farm that lies to the north. Here, a battery array will be placed, that will charge from the sunlight during the day and release the energy at night when it is needed.
It is one of the very few co-located solar farms and lithium ion batteries that are co-located with a wind farm in the UK.
We need more of these to balance our power supplies and improve their quality.
The Anonymous Widower 
As ive repeated verbatim for years no more solar unless it has at least a 2hr battery of equivalent rating co located.
Comment by Nicholas Lewis | January 21, 2025 |
I am concerned with a recently proposed windfarm local to me. My concerns are in particular the harm to the environment. Also the fire risk, in particular with proposed BESS. I believe, at Faversham, planning has just been denied due to that, and noted in a media, it quoted a scientist with Kent University quoted a fire or explosion was a certainty, also noise. Reports are stating, these are no-way carbon neutral, given the footprint for production, and the pay-back off-set against production, and lifetime of investment, and landfill. When you are talking the equivalent size of 83 football pitches
I would be interested to know your comments on this.
Fairly Anonymous
Comment by Stephanie Harman | January 27, 2025 |